About

My name is Ian and I live in Canterbury, UK, with Britta. Feel free to email me if you believe it will help.

As author

My first novel, Déjà Vu, was published to critical acclaim in 2005. I’m represented by the John Jarrold Literary Agency.

Selected publications

Books

Hocking, I. M. (2005). Déjà Vu. Bristol: The UKA Press.
Hocking, I. M. (2009). Déjà Vu: Special Edition. Lulu.com.

Reviews

Hocking, I. M. (2003). The Salmon of Doubt. Spike Magazine.
Hocking, I. M. (2006). Of A Fire on the Moon. Spike Magazine.

Interviews

The Eternal Night (2005).
Forbidden Planet International (2005). Mini interview: Ian Hocking
BubbleCow (2009). Talking to Ian Hocking.

As psychologist

I have more than ten years’ experience teaching psychology at undergraduate and postgraduate levels. My research interests include the relationship between working memory and reading, frequency entrainment effects during language comprehension, comparative cognition, and embodied theories of cognition.

I work for Intute, the Higher Education Academy (Psychology), Canterbury Christ Church University and the Open University.

Selected publications

Doctoral thesis

Hocking, I. M. (2004). Resources and parsing. Doctoral thesis, University of Exeter, UK. Lulu.com.

Peer-reviewed

Whitt, E., Douglas, M., Osthaus, B. & Hocking, I. M. (2009). Domestic cats (Felis catus) do not show causal understanding in a string-pulling task. Animal Cognition, 12, pp. 1-5.

Hocking, I. M. & Mitchell, D. C. (submitted). Working memory and online integration of referential context in a relative clause ambiguity.

Conferences

Hocking, I. M. & Mitchell, D. C. (1999). Processing state in a single-mechanism connectionist network accounts for comprehension and production biases in a three-site ambiguity. Poster presented at ‘Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing-1999’, Edinburgh, Scotland, 23-25 September 1999.

Hocking, I. M. & Mitchell, D. C. (2000). Individual differences in RC attachment: The role of reading-span. Poster presented at ‘Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing-2000’, Leiden, The Netherlands, 20-23 September 2000.

Hocking, I. M. & Mitchell, D. C. (2001). High span readers’ use of Gricean (distributional) information predicts individual differences in RC attachment. Poster presented at ‘Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing-2001’, Saarbrücken, Germany, 20-22 September 2001.

Invited talks

Hocking, I. M. (1999). Verbal working memory and syntax. Presented at the University of Exeter’s School of Psychology Research Day. June 1999.

Hocking, I. M. (2007). Web 2.0: A User’s Guide. Presented at the Computer Science Department of Kingston University to computing undergraduates. 22 November 2007.

Books

Hocking, I. M. (2000). Studying Psychology: A Question and Answers Degree Subject Guide. Richmond, Surrey: Trotman and Company Ltd.

Chapters

Hocking, I. M. (2003). Artificial Minds. In The Brain and the Mind. London: Brown Partworks. PDF (proof)

Hocking, I. M. (2003). The Human Computer. In Thinking and Knowing. London: Brown Partworks.

Slater, A., Hocking, I. M. & Loose, J. (2003). Theories of Child Development.  In A. Slater and G. Bremner (Eds.) Introduction to developmental psychology. Oxford and Massachusetts: Blackwell.